Originally posted by Stealth
How can you not like Reign of Fire!? I thought the effects and acting in that movie was awesome! I guess you don't go out and see movies much, do you dark_4ce 
lol
Heheh.... You know, apart from trying to become a Graphic Designier, what I really want to be is a Film Director. My father was a TV Director/producer/writer, so you could say it runs in the family. But anyway, I have seen
of movies. And I'm not one of those art house buffs either. I LOVE basic action/explosion/pop corn/leave you're brain at the ticked counter movies! And anything else that seems to be interesting. Also, I HATE to be a critic! I don't go and watch movies to look for flaws, or pont out how bad it is. I give EVERY movie a chance. Cause I have been wrong in the past when I've seen a trailer and made up my mind. I just watch the movie, and see how it is. If I like it, thats good, which is most of the time the case, cause I love movies, and can see the good in almost everything. And yes, I can see the good in ROF too.
But if the movie starts to lag and gets boring, then I can't lie to myself and think "Well, everyone else seems to like it, so I guess its the cool thing to do.". I hate that.
But Reign of Fire was downright awful. Not for the special effects. They were good. Not for the acting, that was good too (with what lines they got). But the whole PLOT and SCRIPT! If it doesen't have a good premise, even the most lovely eye candy can be horrible.
Now I really wanted to like this film, I saw the trailers and they looked cool. But there was a question that even snagged me at the previews... HOW THE HELL DO A BUNCH OF DRAGONS MANAGE TO WIPE OUT THE WORLD?! Christ even in the film the helicopters that have the dragon catchers, manages to outrun the dragon! So, if helicopters could do that, what happened to all the fighters? Anti air artilery? And since the dragon attacks started in London, how the hell did it take so long for them to realise that perhaps the male was there???! I mean come one... They could have made this film great. Great as in popcorn great. If they would have focused more on the first few days or weeks of the dragons emergence, that would have been cool. Think of ID4 with dragons!
I would have loved that! I can stand a few plotholes. But to have em scattered around as if a guy used an uzi on the script is too much to ignore.
HOWEVER, perhaps when it comes out on DVD I'll give it another shot, cause it WAS good eye candy and a fair bit entertaining. So who knows, maybe I'll enjoy it a second time.
And yes. MOULIN ROUGE did almost ruin my relationship. I absolutely hate that movie with a passion. Why? Cause it really is aweful. Loud. They RAPE music. I repeat. RAPE MUSIC! Its annoying, trying to be funny and different. And because of all that it seems like its the COOL movie of the year. And people should love this movie cause its so COOL and DIFFERENT. BAH! BAH I say! If the film sucks, it suck! It shouldn't be good just for the novelty value! If you wan't novelty, watch Pi or Cude or even Brazil for that matter. Thats novelty. Not Moulin rouge. Anyway, I'm sidetracking. The reason why it almost (and I think it did in the end) brake up my relationship was because she adored it. And couldn't stop telling me how much so. I tried to at first give her a calm logical explenation why the movie should be shot to the moon and never to be heard from again. But she seemed to take it as an insult to her artistic tastes. So the next thing she does while were out is get all her friends to tell me how much they loved it, so I had to once again defend myself. In a matter of weeks all her friends thought me as some sort of asshole for not liking the movie, and she want so far as to get her colledge art professor to annouce his undying love of the film to me... All that just seemed to fule my hatred for the film even more. Hence the reason why I have to need to physically damage someone whenever I think out the film or whenever it comes up in a discussion. In the beggining my hatred for the film was practically unbiased. However, now it is. Unfortunately. Whenever I think about it, I remeber those f/"#"% idiotic retards (I don't mean everyon who likes the films, just the ones I met thru my ex) trying to change my mind, and make me feel guilty for not seeing the light and hurting my GF feelings.
*Is worked up.*
Ok... I gotta calm down now... I'll just take out a few rounds with my punching bag.
